September 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Morgan White Jr. filled in on NightSide:
National park ranger and baseball historian Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau joined Morgan tonight to talk all-things baseball! The Boston Red Sox have 19 regular-season games remaining in the 2025 MLB season. Will the Red Sox make the playoffs this year?
National park ranger and baseball historian Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau joined Morgan tonight to talk all-things baseball! The Boston Red Sox have 19 regular-season games remaining in the 2025 MLB season. Will the Red Sox make the playoffs this year?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Our number two of Nightside. I am here, phill aen,
but tomorrow Dan, we'll be back. I didn't hear me
mention earlier in the first hour. Dan's guest nine o'clock tomorrow,
Colonel Jeffrey Noble of the Massachusetts State Police. Need I
(00:27):
say more and real quick. You heard a mention of
Josh Craft's name in the news. Well, he'll be here
on Thursday at nine on Nightside with Dan Ray. Those
are program notes. You should make note of. Dixie. You're here,
(00:51):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just call me Smokey. For the next hour.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I want to thank you a little story behind the
curtains as we speak. I had a different guest scheduled.
Not gonna say the guest's name. Something came up. They'll
be rescheduled later on in the fall. I called Dixie.
(01:18):
He's at home, fingers crossed, hoping he can come on
and talk baseball because we're indepennant drive. It's September. The
Red Sox have only two more road trips, and if
I'm not mistaken, they've got like twenty four to twenty
five games to play. Half at home and half on
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the road. And I'm happy that Dixie could come along
and speak to them.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Thank you, it is my pleasure. But nonetheless, you have
put us up against the Holiday fifteen other sports talk
radio show in a football game or interest in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah. I think my son called while I was on
the air. So during the first break I had, I said, Evan,
I'm feeling for Dan Ray. He said, I just want't
to let you know that North Carolina is up seven nothing.
I said, okay, thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He won't he won't be calling again. And now they're down.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Why what's the score ten to seven?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The other guys TCU.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, well, those horned frogs.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Can be pretty tough man, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But you're here to talk baseball, so let's talk. Tell
us about this Pennant race about the American League East
softly tight.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yes, and it will get tighter, guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's three way Toronto, the Yankees in Boston.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yes, for once. Tampa Bay's pretty much out of it,
and so we only have three teams to worry about,
and everybody who follows each one of those teams should
be worried.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Worried for the other teams catching up.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, worried, worried about everything because none none of these
teams are that good and anything can happen. This season
has been very strange. Now I follow everyone as best
I can. I know you don't have time to do that,
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but I do, okay, And the whole season has been crazy.
Just when you think teammate is about to explode and
go on a go on a trip, they implode instead
of explode. And and the opposite is true. Every time
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you think some team B is about about dead and
done out of it, they win six or seven games
in a row. It's really been amazing. Yeah, except for
two winning streaks. The Red Socks are a five hundred team.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You and I talked about that in April, and you
asked me, what do I think of the chances? I said,
they're gonna be one or two games up, one of
two games down for five hundred, because that's what they are.
They are playing above their heads right now. Ten game
That ten game winning streak followed by the seven game
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winning streak were anomalies.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes they were, And the stuff that happened in between
was pretty much expected to happen sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They've gotten a tremendous boost from Cachet Croget, and they've
got a tremendous boost from the kid who just came up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But Roman Anthony, none of.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
These guys are tested except for Bregman, and those are
the only two people on that team that have been
through something and they everybody else has.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Not, and they are helping keep this teams ahead above water.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh yes they are. I have always been a fan
of both of those players since they started off with
their respective teams in Houston and Colorado. So I was
kind of surprised and kind of put on the spot
here having them come here, because that means I might
actually have to root for the Red Sox, which I
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don't usually do. But Bregman has proved himself to be
carrying the load much more than, much more than I
thought he was going to be able to. But that
proves what a great player he is and has been.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But what about the other positions, the other seven players?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So you go to Las Vegas, salot you know the
term crap shoot, yes I do. Well, then there you
have it, because that's pretty much it everywhere else. You
don't know what these people are going to do from
day to day, sometimes from inning to inning. You don't
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know what they're going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm going to say this, I've noticed something about mister Anthony.
His strikeout ratio is creeping up.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
He struck out three times out of four at baths
you normally get four at bats depending and four of
the last six games he has three strikeouts. Granted, he's
got a couple of home runs thrown in there, and
that will always make people pant and salivate, but that's
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a habit that once it starts, it's hard to break.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, you've got to remember how long he's been up
and how old he is. I'm really surprised that I
haven't heard more people say his swing is very similar
to fred Linn.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, I've heard it. I heard it in the first
three weeks. I forget who the guest in the booth
TV booth was, but that guest brought up fred Linn
and similarities between Roman and fred.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't think he can field with Freddy yet, but
the swing is certainly equal.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, he hasn't embarrassed himself. They've put him in left,
they've put him in right, not in center. But he
has not embarrassed himself, right.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I watched him hit that home run off Paul
Skeins on Friday because I was there in the monster seats.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Tell you what, let me take a break when we
come back. I've never sat in the monster seats.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
My last games at Fenway were in your seats that
were along the third base line, which were great seats.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes they were ten year oads back behind the dugout,
yes they are.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But I want you to talk about the monster seats
when we come back. Anybody out there you want to
call in, talk about the teams that right now are
in the dogfight.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Where's the guy in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah? Where is he? Mitch Mark? Whatever?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Maybe he's only a Saturday night caller.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There could be maybe he doesn't know him on now.
But six seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight,
nine to nineteen thirty, David and San Francisco, you will
be first when we come back from this break. Time
and temperature nine point fifteen. And don't think I have
another one, Yes I do. V sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's night side with Onston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dan is not here. He will be here tomorrow. He's
had a very nice. Couple of weeks off for vacation,
but like the kids called all going back to school,
he's coming back to work and host Nightside beginning tomorrow.
I promise Dixie is here. I have Dixie on periodically
(09:31):
to talk baseball as well, periodically to talk about the
National Parks and the circumstances they are facing. Not going
to open that ken of worms to night Dixie, We'll
save that for next time.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, they're facing the same circumstances as the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And what are the Colorado Colorado Rockies facing the.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Worst record in history?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You mean they didn't even get fifty wins? They might
not because that's the old rule. You'll win fifty, you'll
lose fifty. And what you're doing between is how your
season will go.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's right, or you can make it sixty sixty and
whatever you make it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
All right, Well, let's go to San Francisco and talk
to David. David good evening. You called in.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
The name Morgan White Junior and Dixie and Nancy Tony
know how Glenn and Brighton Gray and yeah, Dixie, I'm
from Baltimore. I grew up with Hoy Wilhelm and watched
him several times. He did some amazing stuff. But my
question to you is, has there ever been a left
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handed knuckleballer or a left handed song arm pitcher.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Wilbur Wood.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Didn't can to coffee pitch left handed?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, he didn't. Okay, never mind, but wilbur Wood certainly
was handed knuckleball pitcher. They were probably most like the others.
There were some others, but wilbur Wood is the probably
the one that's been the most famous, one of the
most games lasted the longest.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Okay, us saw Hoy Wilhelm. He came in an attention
against the Yankees and he pitched almost a complete game.
I think it was seventeen innings and then he gave
up two or three hits, and that's.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
When relievers could be depended to get you through three
to five innings.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
If they have.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
But he pitched almost a complete second second half of
the game. It was pretty amazing. And and Morgan, uh, yes,
you got a question for you. When are you gonna
have Donna halper On again?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
For Oh really, you asked?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
She and I are going to be talking about now
make sure everybody follows this legendary b Z talk hosts
that have passed on, but while they were on BZ
they had a five show week, people like Bob Kennedy,
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Peter Me, Larry Glick, JOm Williams, David Brednoy, Bob Brawley,
Lavelle Diett, Paul Sullivan. She and I are going to
cover those names. She'll give the backstory about all of them,
and for two hours we're going to just reminisce about
when talk was king on BZO.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You want to know, yes, so shoot Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You ask and I give it to you almost immediately.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Hey Morgan, you one more thing, name the flog Great
Lakes Homes.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I beat you to it. Nan Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie Superior.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Okay, this is for you and your listeners.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You asked the last question.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You said, one more thing. You ask both Dixie and
I answered both Dicksie and I let off with the
word homes, which is the way of remembering them. Hyeah, yeah, yes,
thank you, we did it for you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Thank you, sir, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Bye bye, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
When people and talk radio they call in, I got
two points to make. They make the two points, oh yeah,
and one more thing and then one more thing. After that,
and then another another, one.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
More thing and it turns into their show.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well guess what, I'm still here and David's gone. But
David's a good David's a good caller.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And it's good to know that two Northeastern students and
to Society for American Baseball Research members are going tag
team back to back on BZ tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And Donna was the first woman to host her own
show at Northeastern. That's correct, and as well she I
think was the first woman DJ in Boston when she
was on w c AS and Cambridge. This car runs
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on casts. That was a bumper sticker because you saw
the scene and you thought this car runs on gas,
but it was c AS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Before we go any further, I have to say good
evening to Nancy and the Pussycat Gray and also to
my friend Susan V and Brookline. And I want you
to know that I had dinner yesterday with Zoe pinball rebel,
her father and her aunt Susan.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
What made me think of her? I was watching The
Prices right, I think it was today or was it yesterday?
None would have had have been today. And they have
a pinball machine out there now that has four hundred
different games. Now, I don't know how they do it
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because the bumpers can't move around this static They cannot
be recessed and then pop up and then move over.
But there is a pinball machine out there that can
play four hundred different games.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, well, Zoe only has one in her apartment in
Salem now where she lives.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
What game that?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't know. I'm not that up on binball machines,
but they do have five or six machines in storage
in various places, so if they need to change machines,
they can do it easily.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Well, my favorite machine was Firepower. You could have three
balls activated simultaneously. And I could name other machines. I
prefer William's machines to Bally and Got Leap because I
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just felt they played better. That's just there, you go.
That's just I think.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I think we're off topic.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think rope us back in the subject. Who has
what it takes to be the last team standing come
the last week of September?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Everywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No, just American League East Rats.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Actually, no one has anything in Cement. No one. Okay,
they're all suspect, all all you fans out there of
the New York frauds. Just remember they can hit nine
home runs in the game and they can commit five
errors in a game. So just watch a step.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Fair enough, And I just remember last October Judge camping
under a ball in center field and oops, oops. And
we know who won that World Series?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And it wasn't the first.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Even though even though we don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, yeah, you had a lesser two evils to choose from.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, but not the quite the thing that I'd like
to go by.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Then, who's going to be there at the end of
this season?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hopefully mil Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit and Houston.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hmmm. I didn't hear the Red Sox or the Yankees mentioned,
that's correct. I didn't hear Toronto mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's also correct.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, there are people who would disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The teams are the people who would disagree with you. Everybody, Okay,
we'll tell you what we are approaching a break. If
you disagree with Dixie's observations six one, seven, four, ten
thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty,
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call in.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well talk monster seats.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh yeah, real quick, I'll give you thirty seconds. Talk
about the attributes of sitting up in those seats.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, you would not think of it, but there probably
are several cons to all the pros, and so I
think I'm going to need more than thirty seconds. So
let's do it after the break, all right, fair.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Enough, and you want to talk about good grief. There
are other Pennant races and other divisions. There are five
other divisions that we haven't talked about, Dixie.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, that's right, and four of them have races.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Then let's talk about that too when we come back.
Time and temperature here on night Side nine thirty and
Phillip's sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's night Side on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Dan is off. He'll be here tomorrow. I'm here now.
My name is Morgan, Morgan White Junior. My guest, former
Forest stranger, Richard Thranjo, affectionately, we all call him Dixie.
Dixie is here talking baseball, and maybe other than Peter Gammons,
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he knows more about baseball than anyone I can think of.
Reay for a phone called Dixie, I am. Let's go
to Lowell and speak to Dennis. Good evening, Dennis, Dennis.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Dennis, Yeah, speak and hear me. Yes, okay, I've been
a Red Sox fan off and on since nineteen fifties.
You know, I go back with Ted Williams and Mickey Mantles.
I'll just say one particular game quickly, like in nineteen
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fifty seven fifty eight, so Tommy Brewer struck out Mickey
Mantle three times, and I swear Mickey Mantle like blushed.
He was embarrassed in that game. Ted Williams hit a
home run. It's like a pop up and over the
left field wall, and he's like disgusted that he came
around late on a ball type of thing. But anyway,
that's it sounds like Ted, Yes, no real, just we're
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up close. My father was a policeman. He used to
take me to a lot of games. I did a
lot of baseball over the years. I could. I played
against Wilblewood out of Belmont and also a skip Walkwood
out of Norwood. I could go on and on and on,
but I won't talk about myself.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And did you get a hit off of Wimblewood?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
He was tricky.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
The ball moved, That's.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Why he laughed out as long as he did.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yes, he did I actually had an offer I think
for five hundred dollars a month. Oh, this is a
trivia question. The the Houston Astros, what was their name,
you know before nineteen sixty four. Well, yeah, the Cold
forty five actually had a scout that asked me if
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I and he had talked to like five hundred other kids,
but five hundred dollars a month. But it was a
little yeah. Yeah, all right, I'll talk about present day
Red Sox. Well, first of all, what did you think
of Trevor Story's home run today?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I kept looking at the replays and I never really
understood what happened because the replays were good, but they
weren't good enough to show exactly where, when, and where
that ball bounced.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, nobody's seen them really configure it out, It went out,
had it, he lost it and went off the pole,
and then he got it back, and then he lost it.
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, and that and they and nobody who was announcing
the game would tell you exactly what the sequence was,
so you're left there wondering what happened.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So, speaking of pinball, it went off the fielder, off
the ball, right back to the fielder, off into the stands. Yeah,
but the Empire twirled his finger round said home run.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Yeah. And also the other home run last night, Jaron Duran,
how did you like that inside the pot home run?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I always liked, Well, that was the That home run
was perfect because that ball has to bounce where it
bounced perfectly in order for a fast guy like him
to be able to run around.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah. Yeah, and has to go like four hundred and
twenty feet into the connery.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And then bounced away from the guy going after it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah. Spin and I actually, you know how fast you
went around the bases.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fourteen and a half second, fourteen.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Point seven to one seconds. Yeah, that's pretty click.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, he knew he had a chance. He had the chance,
and he knew it and that's why he took off
and he did it.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Okay. My last question is what do you think of
a roll this Chapman.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
The reliever, unstoppable.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, twenty eight says last thirty chances, hasn't given up
a hit in his last fifteen games, thirteen in the
two thirds innings.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I like.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Because more often than not he strikes out. Number three
is a strikeout, and he just stands the arms folded
like a statue. Look what I just did.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, just remember he has to do it for another month, Okay, yeah,
but we'll appreciate it right now.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean it's like it's scary. I mean, he hasn't
he's done well since like I think July thirty first, Like,
no one's got to hit off him since July thirty first.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So well, as long as they're not in too many
games where he has to come out, then he should
be okay. But if they start playing four and five
games a week where he's going to come out, then
you might be sorry.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, yeah, you might get a little weak. But the
other starting pitchers are doing pretty well now, I got
to give them a little credit to. So anyway, I've
been a Red Sox fan off and on, like I said,
since the nineteen fifty that I'm going to go up
and down. But you know, like you said, Roman, Anthony
reminds me of Freddy Lynn a little bit. Yep, and
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you know, except the field, and Freddy was a great outfielder.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But I'm telling you right now, yes, this should not
be three or four or five games out of ten
where he strikes out three times in a game. Ooh,
that's wrong. That's unforgivable and you've got to break that
habit now.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah. Well, earlier he was taking walks. What happened to that,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
He starts swinging sweepers.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
He start he hit a couple of home runs and
he got felt good.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You know, what happens while he's the young Okay, Well,
I wishn't the best. They make it interesting. I haven't
been interested in the in the last four or five years,
but now they got my interest again. And they sold
out for like the twentieth time this year, so they
got a lot of fans.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And two, well, they have now won two home games
in a row. Prior to that, they lost five games,
if fimily in a row. Yeah, he's the things to
get lost in the dust.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, okay, gentlemen, Well, thank you very much for talking
about the subject tonight. I'll talk to you again sometimes.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Thank you for calling in you two. All right, Dixie,
talk about the monster seats.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The monster seats. Okay. I have sat in the monster
seats twice this year, once in June against Baltimore and
Baltimore won, and once on Friday Night and Pittsburgh won
and the other game, I was behind home plate and
Atlanta won. So I think the Red Sox want to
keep me out of Fenway.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, your visa is revoked. You can't go visit that
park anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Okay. For the Monster seats, the Monster seats were a
thing a I must do this now that Marilyn had
on her mind last year. She was determined to go
to the Monster seats.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
For those who don't know, Marylyn is Dixie's lady.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yes, the lady of the house. Yes she is an
equal base Well she's not an equal baseball fan, but
pretty close. Okay, all right. I did not have to
keep teacher how to keep score. She knew it already.
And anyway, so she was determined to get Monster seats.
And because of master Card, had a situation where they
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were giving MasterCard people a chance to get Monster seats
for a certain a dollar amount. And I believe that
the dollar amount goes to charity. I can't be absolutely
sure about that, but I think so. And anyway, with
the seats, you get a little bag of goodies, and
you also get a voucher for hot dogs and a drink. Okay,
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so she was determined to get the seats, And we
picked a game in June and it was Baltimore and
it was fine. It was a little chilly up there
because it had rained the day before and the air
was a little different, but it was fine. The perspective
of being up there is great, but unless you're in
the first row, you do not see anything below you.
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So you're missing balls off the wall, you're missing catches
up against the wall. The left fielder, no, no, you
can for a while, but not if he goes to
the wall. Okay, you can see plenty of right field.
Everything in right fields fine, and you can see most
of everything in center field. But if the center field
that has to drift over toward left center, then he disappears.
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But the other thing poplar, Oh they are, but they
and they cost a couple of one hundred bucks. So
you're you're, you're, you're paying quite a bit to be there.
The thing that I the cons There are plenty of pros.
It's being up there is great. The view is great.
All this other stuff is great, but the seats are
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round things that are not all that comfortable. Okay, So
if you if you do go up there, take a
towel with you to sit on and be a little
bit more comfortable, pillow or something something. What is very
good is that they have a little table in front
of all the chairs, so if you have something to eat,
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or you have a scorecard to keep score, you can
place your eats or your scorecard in front of you
and it's in front of you. It's it's out of
the way and you can you can use it. So
that's very good. The one of the drawbacks is that
the food that's nearest to you are just hot dogs
and drinks like water or coke or something. They don't
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have any They don't have enough room or whatever to
have French fries or anything else. But the hot dogs.
I don't even think they have hamburgers. I think they
they just have hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What about the chowder, I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Not up there, No, you gotta you gotta buy it
down below and take it up with you. So those
are those are a couple of the drawbacks. And as
I said, the the chair that you're sitting in is okay,
but it's kind of small, and I said, take a
towel with you. It's more much more comfortable. That we
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had some people from Pittsburgh sitting down to our left
in the front row when we were there Friday, and
they were they would probably be very upset to learn
that a that O'Neill Cruz's home run went right to
their seats. The next night, uh, we heard we heard
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them discussing their trip. They had been traveling around the
country going to games following the pirates, and they had
been to Wrigley Field and they said it was okay,
but Fenway was much better. They said, well, we.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Have a landsdown street and they have a wave on Avenue.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, but they said, they said, the whole thing at
Fenway was much better than the whole thing at Wrigley.
And another thing was that we Maryland picked these seats
as our second try. I am just out of sheer
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pure luck. Did we get to see Paul Skeen's pitch.
But now I have seen Paul Sken's pitch. I have
seen him win a game at Fenway. He may never
pitch again at Benway for the next five or six years,
I don't know, but I have seen him pitch and win.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And on that note, I am going to take a
break and I'm going to say, you've only got maybe
twelve more minutes left to your hour with me times.
Let me do it first. The phone number six one, seven, two, five, four, eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
ten thirty time and temperature nine forty six sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You're on night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
They have been unfair. There are six divisions in baseball.
Three in the American League, three in the National League.
You've got East, West, and Central. There are a lot
of teams that are having good seasons. I'm not gonna
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stretch the adjectives to more than good, but they're about,
as Dixie mentioned, a half dozen teams that right now
could be there at the end of September. I know
they play a quick October series to be at the
end of the baseball season. But Dixie, let's talk about
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the other teams. Because American League East it's boring. We
know Red Sox, we know Yankees, we know a little
about Toronto. But let's talk about the other teams.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
That's fine with me. I'll go right down the line.
In the in the American League Central, we have the Tigers,
who are really really good.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I have a Tigers fans tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They have Tarrek's Scouobel, and he is the probably the
best pitcher in the American League. Crochet is close, but
he's not. Tarrek's scoobl who shut out Kansas City two
days ago. Kansas City is not going anywhere. They're just
not good enough. Yet They're probably a good bat and
a good pitcher away from doing anything. So the Tigers
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should roll easily into through the first place in the West.
Now that's a deal because the Astros are good, and
the Mariners are are pretty good, and they have probably
the most enjoyable player in the American League in Cal Rawley,
the guy with fifty home runs as a catcher. I
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would love to see them give the ash run. Even
though the Astros I have rooted for the Astros for
a very long time. They seem to be able to
stay in first place no matter if they lose their
best bat, which they did for a couple of months,
and a couple of pitchers, which they have, they are
still in first place. So God only knows what's going
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to happen there, but it will only be between the
Astros and the Mariners. The Mariners have yet to prove
that they can get over the last hump. Ever, ever, yes, ever, Yes,
Now we go to the National League, the Phillies and
the Mets. The Phillies have everything. They have Kyle Schwarber,
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who I think is the most enjoyable player in the
entire baseball scene, even more so than Cal Rawley. Kyle
Schwarber is just fun to watch play and hit. And
the Mets they're up and down, another team that you
think should be better. You think they should be better,
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they go on runs and suddenly they're not as good
as you think. So who knows. They have six games
to catch up in a month. So I don't know
if Philadelphia is going to allow that.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hold on. Yeah, do they have any series against each other?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I'm sure they do. They probably have at least two. Okay,
but you're gonna have to sweep one of them.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The Brewers. The Brewers have no holes. They can hit,
they can run, they can feel, they can pitch, they
can relief pitch, and they've got several good players who
are not having tremendous seasons, but they're having very good season.
If you spread out very good seasons among ten or
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twelve guys, you're even better than having one or two
guys go nuts.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You know, Nancy has handed me herself and she's got
the National League Central and the National League West. The
Brewers are eighty five and fifty four. The Cubs are
six games behind them, yes, say nine and fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
And that's only because of the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
And I'm sure they play each other at least one
more time.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yeah, they do. But the Brewers have not proven that
they're going to choke.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah. Didn't they win fourteen or fifteen before they lost
one or two?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah? And you have to also remember the Brewers got
the shaft last year by the Mets. So not only
are they good and hungry, they are hungrier than they were.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Last year, only because they got close.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
And Pete Lonzo's crazy home run put them out right.
And I'm sure they remember that. And so the Cubs.
The Cubs are good, There's no doubt about it. The
Cubs are good, but they may be a short or
a picture short of being able to catch the Brewers
at this point. Okay, two of my favorite players are
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on the Cubs, Dansby Swanson it's short and Kyle Tucker
and right field, and I love those guys I root
from all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
But Billy Williams isn't playing right field for the Cubs anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Not anymore? Sure a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Oh, I must have missed that day on the newspaper.
Wait and and Rhinos not on the infield.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, and neither is Ernie no saving So let's play
two yes. And as for the National League West, I
only have one thing to say.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, but Dodgers ahead of them?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, so what.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
The Padres are in the same condition as the Seattle Mariners.
They just can't get over the last hump. They have
a perfect chance a week and a half ago. But
week and a half ago they were a game up
on the Dodgers. They were going to Dodgers Stadium and
they lost three games.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You can't do that in a playoffs drive.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, they had their chance to show him whose boss
and they didn't. And by the way, Raphael Devers at
a home run today and the Giants won again. But
they're five hundred team.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
How's he doing home run wise?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I No, not yet. He's close. He has not hit
for the power that they thought he was going to
be able to.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Keys mccovey's cove the waters.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, that's right, and all those people are out there
in their kayaks waiting for balls to come over.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah. Well, and Dixie, thank you, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Is my pleasure as always. I am now going to
reach over my computer and tap my good friend Donna,
help her on the shoulder and say, tag you're it,
bring us home, Donna.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Oh, be like wrestling, tag team wrestling. That's right, all right,
and Dixie tell Marylyn I said hello, and thank you
for to her. Thank you for letting Dixie come out
and play. All right, Morgan, Okay, take care bye bye.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Now, I've got about a minute, maybe thirty seconds to
set up what I'm going to be doing with Donna Helper.
If you've listened to BZ as long as I have,
you're quite familiar with these names. Peter Me, Bob Kennedy,
Larry Glick, Jerry Williams, David Bradnoy, Lavelle, diet Bob Rowley,
(41:08):
Paul Sullivan, all men who have passed away, all men
who had a five days shift during the week on
BUZ back in the day. And we're going to talk
about all of them, where they came from, the beginnings,
et cetera. With Donna helper who knows more about media
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than anybody I can think of. Time and temperature nine
point fifty eight sixty six degrees
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Our number two of Nightside. I am here, phill aen,
but tomorrow Dan, we'll be back. I didn't hear me
mention earlier in the first hour. Dan's guest nine o'clock tomorrow,
Colonel Jeffrey Noble of the Massachusetts State Police. Need I
(00:27):
say more and real quick. You heard a mention of
Josh Craft's name in the news. Well, he'll be here
on Thursday at nine on Nightside with Dan Ray. Those
are program notes. You should make note of. Dixie. You're here,
(00:51):
I'm here.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Just call me Smokey. For the next hour.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I want to thank you a little story behind the
curtains as we speak. I had a different guest scheduled.
Not gonna say the guest's name. Something came up. They'll
be rescheduled later on in the fall. I called Dixie.
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He's at home, fingers crossed, hoping he can come on
and talk baseball because we're indepennant drive. It's September. The
Red Sox have only two more road trips, and if
I'm not mistaken, they've got like twenty four to twenty
five games to play. Half at home and half on
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the road. And I'm happy that Dixie could come along
and speak to them.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Thank you, it is my pleasure. But nonetheless, you have
put us up against the Holiday fifteen other sports talk
radio show in a football game or interest in the neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Yeah. I think my son called while I was on
the air. So during the first break I had, I said, Evan,
I'm feeling for Dan Ray. He said, I just want't
to let you know that North Carolina is up seven nothing.
I said, okay, thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
He won't he won't be calling again. And now they're down.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Why what's the score ten to seven?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
The other guys TCU.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh, well, those horned frogs.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Can be pretty tough man, that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But you're here to talk baseball, so let's talk. Tell
us about this Pennant race about the American League East
softly tight.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yes, and it will get tighter, guaranteed.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
It's three way Toronto, the Yankees in Boston.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yes, for once. Tampa Bay's pretty much out of it,
and so we only have three teams to worry about,
and everybody who follows each one of those teams should
be worried.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Worried for the other teams catching up.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, worried, worried about everything because none none of these
teams are that good and anything can happen. This season
has been very strange. Now I follow everyone as best
I can. I know you don't have time to do that,
(03:34):
but I do, okay, And the whole season has been crazy.
Just when you think teammate is about to explode and
go on a go on a trip, they implode instead
of explode. And and the opposite is true. Every time
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you think some team B is about about dead and
done out of it, they win six or seven games
in a row. It's really been amazing. Yeah, except for
two winning streaks. The Red Socks are a five hundred team.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You and I talked about that in April, and you
asked me, what do I think of the chances? I said,
they're gonna be one or two games up, one of
two games down for five hundred, because that's what they are.
They are playing above their heads right now. Ten game
That ten game winning streak followed by the seven game
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winning streak were anomalies.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Yes they were, And the stuff that happened in between
was pretty much expected to happen sooner or later.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Right now.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
They've gotten a tremendous boost from Cachet Croget, and they've
got a tremendous boost from the kid who just came up.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But Roman Anthony, none of.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
These guys are tested except for Bregman, and those are
the only two people on that team that have been
through something and they everybody else has.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Not, and they are helping keep this teams ahead above water.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh yes they are. I have always been a fan
of both of those players since they started off with
their respective teams in Houston and Colorado. So I was
kind of surprised and kind of put on the spot
here having them come here, because that means I might
actually have to root for the Red Sox, which I
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don't usually do. But Bregman has proved himself to be
carrying the load much more than, much more than I
thought he was going to be able to. But that
proves what a great player he is and has been.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But what about the other positions, the other seven players?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So you go to Las Vegas, salot you know the
term crap shoot, yes I do. Well, then there you
have it, because that's pretty much it everywhere else. You
don't know what these people are going to do from
day to day, sometimes from inning to inning. You don't
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know what they're going to do.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I'm going to say this, I've noticed something about mister Anthony.
His strikeout ratio is creeping up.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
He struck out three times out of four at baths
you normally get four at bats depending and four of
the last six games he has three strikeouts. Granted, he's
got a couple of home runs thrown in there, and
that will always make people pant and salivate, but that's
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a habit that once it starts, it's hard to break.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Well, you've got to remember how long he's been up
and how old he is. I'm really surprised that I
haven't heard more people say his swing is very similar
to fred Linn.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Oh, I've heard it. I heard it in the first
three weeks. I forget who the guest in the booth
TV booth was, but that guest brought up fred Linn
and similarities between Roman and fred.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
I don't think he can field with Freddy yet, but
the swing is certainly equal.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, he hasn't embarrassed himself. They've put him in left,
they've put him in right, not in center. But he
has not embarrassed himself, right.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I watched him hit that home run off Paul
Skeins on Friday because I was there in the monster seats.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Tell you what, let me take a break when we
come back. I've never sat in the monster seats.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
You know.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
My last games at Fenway were in your seats that
were along the third base line, which were great seats.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yes they were ten year oads back behind the dugout,
yes they are.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
But I want you to talk about the monster seats
when we come back. Anybody out there you want to
call in, talk about the teams that right now are
in the dogfight.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Where's the guy in Detroit?
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah? Where is he? Mitch Mark? Whatever?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Maybe he's only a Saturday night caller.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
There could be maybe he doesn't know him on now.
But six seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight,
nine to nineteen thirty, David and San Francisco, you will
be first when we come back from this break. Time
and temperature nine point fifteen. And don't think I have
another one, Yes I do. V sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It's night side with Onston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dan is not here. He will be here tomorrow. He's
had a very nice. Couple of weeks off for vacation,
but like the kids called all going back to school,
he's coming back to work and host Nightside beginning tomorrow.
I promise Dixie is here. I have Dixie on periodically
(09:31):
to talk baseball as well, periodically to talk about the
National Parks and the circumstances they are facing. Not going
to open that ken of worms to night Dixie, We'll
save that for next time.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, they're facing the same circumstances as the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
And what are the Colorado Colorado Rockies facing the.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Worst record in history?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
You mean they didn't even get fifty wins? They might
not because that's the old rule. You'll win fifty, you'll
lose fifty. And what you're doing between is how your
season will go.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
That's right, or you can make it sixty sixty and
whatever you make it.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
All right, Well, let's go to San Francisco and talk
to David. David good evening. You called in.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
The name Morgan White Junior and Dixie and Nancy Tony
know how Glenn and Brighton Gray and yeah, Dixie, I'm
from Baltimore. I grew up with Hoy Wilhelm and watched
him several times. He did some amazing stuff. But my
question to you is, has there ever been a left
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handed knuckleballer or a left handed song arm pitcher.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Wilbur Wood.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Didn't can to coffee pitch left handed?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
No, he didn't. Okay, never mind, but wilbur Wood certainly
was handed knuckleball pitcher. They were probably most like the others.
There were some others, but wilbur Wood is the probably
the one that's been the most famous, one of the
most games lasted the longest.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Okay, us saw Hoy Wilhelm. He came in an attention
against the Yankees and he pitched almost a complete game.
I think it was seventeen innings and then he gave
up two or three hits, and that's.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
When relievers could be depended to get you through three
to five innings.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
If they have.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
But he pitched almost a complete second second half of
the game. It was pretty amazing. And and Morgan, uh, yes,
you got a question for you. When are you gonna
have Donna halper On again?
Speaker 3 (11:54):
For Oh really, you asked?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
She and I are going to be talking about now
make sure everybody follows this legendary b Z talk hosts
that have passed on, but while they were on BZ
they had a five show week, people like Bob Kennedy,
(12:23):
Peter Me, Larry Glick, JOm Williams, David Brednoy, Bob Brawley,
Lavelle Diett, Paul Sullivan. She and I are going to
cover those names. She'll give the backstory about all of them,
and for two hours we're going to just reminisce about
when talk was king on BZO.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
You want to know, yes, so shoot Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You ask and I give it to you almost immediately.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Hey Morgan, you one more thing, name the flog Great
Lakes Homes.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I beat you to it. Nan Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie Superior.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Okay, this is for you and your listeners.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You asked the last question.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
You said, one more thing. You ask both Dixie and
I answered both Dicksie and I let off with the
word homes, which is the way of remembering them. Hyeah, yeah, yes,
thank you, we did it for you.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Thank you, sir, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Bye bye, Okay.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
When people and talk radio they call in, I got
two points to make. They make the two points, oh yeah,
and one more thing and then one more thing. After that,
and then another another, one.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
More thing and it turns into their show.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well guess what, I'm still here and David's gone. But
David's a good David's a good caller.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And it's good to know that two Northeastern students and
to Society for American Baseball Research members are going tag
team back to back on BZ tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
And Donna was the first woman to host her own
show at Northeastern. That's correct, and as well she I
think was the first woman DJ in Boston when she
was on w c AS and Cambridge. This car runs
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on casts. That was a bumper sticker because you saw
the scene and you thought this car runs on gas,
but it was c AS.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Before we go any further, I have to say good
evening to Nancy and the Pussycat Gray and also to
my friend Susan V and Brookline. And I want you
to know that I had dinner yesterday with Zoe pinball rebel,
her father and her aunt Susan.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
What made me think of her? I was watching The
Prices right, I think it was today or was it yesterday?
None would have had have been today. And they have
a pinball machine out there now that has four hundred
different games. Now, I don't know how they do it
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because the bumpers can't move around this static They cannot
be recessed and then pop up and then move over.
But there is a pinball machine out there that can
play four hundred different games.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well, well, Zoe only has one in her apartment in
Salem now where she lives.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
What game that?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I don't know. I'm not that up on binball machines,
but they do have five or six machines in storage
in various places, so if they need to change machines,
they can do it easily.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Well, my favorite machine was Firepower. You could have three
balls activated simultaneously. And I could name other machines. I
prefer William's machines to Bally and Got Leap because I
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just felt they played better. That's just there, you go.
That's just I think.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I think we're off topic.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think rope us back in the subject. Who has
what it takes to be the last team standing come
the last week of September?
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Everywhere?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
No, just American League East Rats.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Actually, no one has anything in Cement. No one. Okay,
they're all suspect, all all you fans out there of
the New York frauds. Just remember they can hit nine
home runs in the game and they can commit five
errors in a game. So just watch a step.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Fair enough, And I just remember last October Judge camping
under a ball in center field and oops, oops. And
we know who won that World Series?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And it wasn't the first.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Even though even though we don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Well, yeah, you had a lesser two evils to choose from.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Yeah, but not the quite the thing that I'd like
to go by.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Then, who's going to be there at the end of
this season?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Hopefully mil Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit and Houston.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Hmmm. I didn't hear the Red Sox or the Yankees mentioned,
that's correct. I didn't hear Toronto mentioned.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's also correct.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
All right, there are people who would disagree with you.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
They can't be trusted.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The teams are the people who would disagree with you. Everybody, Okay,
we'll tell you what we are approaching a break. If
you disagree with Dixie's observations six one, seven, four, ten
thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty,
(18:55):
call in.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Well talk monster seats.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Oh yeah, real quick, I'll give you thirty seconds. Talk
about the attributes of sitting up in those seats.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Well, you would not think of it, but there probably
are several cons to all the pros, and so I
think I'm going to need more than thirty seconds. So
let's do it after the break, all right, fair.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Enough, and you want to talk about good grief. There
are other Pennant races and other divisions. There are five
other divisions that we haven't talked about, Dixie.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, that's right, and four of them have races.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Then let's talk about that too when we come back.
Time and temperature here on night Side nine thirty and
Phillip's sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
It's night Side on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Dan is off. He'll be here tomorrow. I'm here now.
My name is Morgan, Morgan White Junior. My guest, former
Forest stranger, Richard Thranjo, affectionately, we all call him Dixie.
Dixie is here talking baseball, and maybe other than Peter Gammons,
(20:21):
he knows more about baseball than anyone I can think of.
Reay for a phone called Dixie, I am. Let's go
to Lowell and speak to Dennis. Good evening, Dennis, Dennis.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Dennis, Yeah, speak and hear me. Yes, okay, I've been
a Red Sox fan off and on since nineteen fifties.
You know, I go back with Ted Williams and Mickey Mantles.
I'll just say one particular game quickly, like in nineteen
(20:57):
fifty seven fifty eight, so Tommy Brewer struck out Mickey
Mantle three times, and I swear Mickey Mantle like blushed.
He was embarrassed in that game. Ted Williams hit a
home run. It's like a pop up and over the
left field wall, and he's like disgusted that he came
around late on a ball type of thing. But anyway,
that's it sounds like Ted, Yes, no real, just we're
(21:23):
up close. My father was a policeman. He used to
take me to a lot of games. I did a
lot of baseball over the years. I could. I played
against Wilblewood out of Belmont and also a skip Walkwood
out of Norwood. I could go on and on and on,
but I won't talk about myself.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
And did you get a hit off of Wimblewood?
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
He was tricky.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
The ball moved, That's.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Why he laughed out as long as he did.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Yes, he did I actually had an offer I think
for five hundred dollars a month. Oh, this is a
trivia question. The the Houston Astros, what was their name,
you know before nineteen sixty four. Well, yeah, the Cold
forty five actually had a scout that asked me if
(22:11):
I and he had talked to like five hundred other kids,
but five hundred dollars a month. But it was a
little yeah. Yeah, all right, I'll talk about present day
Red Sox. Well, first of all, what did you think
of Trevor Story's home run today?
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I kept looking at the replays and I never really
understood what happened because the replays were good, but they
weren't good enough to show exactly where, when, and where
that ball bounced.
Speaker 5 (22:46):
Yeah, nobody's seen them really configure it out, It went out,
had it, he lost it and went off the pole,
and then he got it back, and then he lost it.
I don't know what.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, and that and they and nobody who was announcing
the game would tell you exactly what the sequence was,
so you're left there wondering what happened.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So, speaking of pinball, it went off the fielder, off
the ball, right back to the fielder, off into the stands. Yeah,
but the Empire twirled his finger round said home run.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Yeah. And also the other home run last night, Jaron Duran,
how did you like that inside the pot home run?
Speaker 3 (23:29):
I always liked, Well, that was the That home run
was perfect because that ball has to bounce where it
bounced perfectly in order for a fast guy like him
to be able to run around.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah. Yeah, and has to go like four hundred and
twenty feet into the connery.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
And then bounced away from the guy going after it.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah. Spin and I actually, you know how fast you
went around the bases.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Fourteen and a half second, fourteen.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Point seven to one seconds. Yeah, that's pretty click.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Well, he knew he had a chance. He had the chance,
and he knew it and that's why he took off
and he did it.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Okay. My last question is what do you think of
a roll this Chapman.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
The reliever, unstoppable.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Yeah, twenty eight says last thirty chances, hasn't given up
a hit in his last fifteen games, thirteen in the
two thirds innings.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I like.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Because more often than not he strikes out. Number three
is a strikeout, and he just stands the arms folded
like a statue. Look what I just did.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Yeah, just remember he has to do it for another month, Okay, yeah,
but we'll appreciate it right now.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean it's like it's scary. I mean, he hasn't
he's done well since like I think July thirty first, Like,
no one's got to hit off him since July thirty first.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So well, as long as they're not in too many
games where he has to come out, then he should
be okay. But if they start playing four and five
games a week where he's going to come out, then
you might be sorry.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, yeah, you might get a little weak. But the
other starting pitchers are doing pretty well now, I got
to give them a little credit to. So anyway, I've
been a Red Sox fan off and on, like I said,
since the nineteen fifty that I'm going to go up
and down. But you know, like you said, Roman, Anthony
reminds me of Freddy Lynn a little bit. Yep, and
(25:41):
you know, except the field, and Freddy was a great outfielder.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
But I'm telling you right now, yes, this should not
be three or four or five games out of ten
where he strikes out three times in a game. Ooh,
that's wrong. That's unforgivable and you've got to break that
habit now.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Yeah. Well, earlier he was taking walks. What happened to that,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
He starts swinging sweepers.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
He start he hit a couple of home runs and
he got felt good.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
And that's the problem.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
You know, what happens while he's the young Okay, Well,
I wishn't the best. They make it interesting. I haven't
been interested in the in the last four or five years,
but now they got my interest again. And they sold
out for like the twentieth time this year, so they
got a lot of fans.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And two, well, they have now won two home games
in a row. Prior to that, they lost five games,
if fimily in a row. Yeah, he's the things to
get lost in the dust.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
Yeah, okay, gentlemen, Well, thank you very much for talking
about the subject tonight. I'll talk to you again sometimes.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Thank you for calling in you two. All right, Dixie,
talk about the monster seats.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
The monster seats. Okay. I have sat in the monster
seats twice this year, once in June against Baltimore and
Baltimore won, and once on Friday Night and Pittsburgh won
and the other game, I was behind home plate and
Atlanta won. So I think the Red Sox want to
keep me out of Fenway.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Yeah, your visa is revoked. You can't go visit that
park anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
Okay. For the Monster seats, the Monster seats were a
thing a I must do this now that Marilyn had
on her mind last year. She was determined to go
to the Monster seats.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
For those who don't know, Marylyn is Dixie's lady.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Yes, the lady of the house. Yes she is an
equal base Well she's not an equal baseball fan, but
pretty close. Okay, all right. I did not have to
keep teacher how to keep score. She knew it already.
And anyway, so she was determined to get Monster seats.
And because of master Card, had a situation where they
(28:13):
were giving MasterCard people a chance to get Monster seats
for a certain a dollar amount. And I believe that
the dollar amount goes to charity. I can't be absolutely
sure about that, but I think so. And anyway, with
the seats, you get a little bag of goodies, and
you also get a voucher for hot dogs and a drink. Okay,
(28:37):
so she was determined to get the seats, And we
picked a game in June and it was Baltimore and
it was fine. It was a little chilly up there
because it had rained the day before and the air
was a little different, but it was fine. The perspective
of being up there is great, but unless you're in
the first row, you do not see anything below you.
(29:01):
So you're missing balls off the wall, you're missing catches
up against the wall. The left fielder, no, no, you
can for a while, but not if he goes to
the wall. Okay, you can see plenty of right field.
Everything in right fields fine, and you can see most
of everything in center field. But if the center field
that has to drift over toward left center, then he disappears.
(29:26):
But the other thing poplar, Oh they are, but they
and they cost a couple of one hundred bucks. So
you're you're, you're, you're paying quite a bit to be there.
The thing that I the cons There are plenty of pros.
It's being up there is great. The view is great.
All this other stuff is great, but the seats are
(29:49):
round things that are not all that comfortable. Okay, So
if you if you do go up there, take a
towel with you to sit on and be a little
bit more comfortable, pillow or something something. What is very
good is that they have a little table in front
of all the chairs, so if you have something to eat,
(30:09):
or you have a scorecard to keep score, you can
place your eats or your scorecard in front of you
and it's in front of you. It's it's out of
the way and you can you can use it. So
that's very good. The one of the drawbacks is that
the food that's nearest to you are just hot dogs
and drinks like water or coke or something. They don't
(30:33):
have any They don't have enough room or whatever to
have French fries or anything else. But the hot dogs.
I don't even think they have hamburgers. I think they
they just have hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
What about the chowder, I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Not up there, No, you gotta you gotta buy it
down below and take it up with you. So those
are those are a couple of the drawbacks. And as
I said, the the chair that you're sitting in is okay,
but it's kind of small, and I said, take a
towel with you. It's more much more comfortable. That we
(31:09):
had some people from Pittsburgh sitting down to our left
in the front row when we were there Friday, and
they were they would probably be very upset to learn
that a that O'Neill Cruz's home run went right to
their seats. The next night, uh, we heard we heard
(31:33):
them discussing their trip. They had been traveling around the
country going to games following the pirates, and they had
been to Wrigley Field and they said it was okay,
but Fenway was much better. They said, well, we.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Have a landsdown street and they have a wave on Avenue.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Yeah, but they said, they said, the whole thing at
Fenway was much better than the whole thing at Wrigley.
And another thing was that we Maryland picked these seats
as our second try. I am just out of sheer
(32:11):
pure luck. Did we get to see Paul Skeen's pitch.
But now I have seen Paul Sken's pitch. I have
seen him win a game at Fenway. He may never
pitch again at Benway for the next five or six years,
I don't know, but I have seen him pitch and win.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
And on that note, I am going to take a
break and I'm going to say, you've only got maybe
twelve more minutes left to your hour with me times.
Let me do it first. The phone number six one, seven, two, five, four, eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
ten thirty time and temperature nine forty six sixty six degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
You're on night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
They have been unfair. There are six divisions in baseball.
Three in the American League, three in the National League.
You've got East, West, and Central. There are a lot
of teams that are having good seasons. I'm not gonna
(33:24):
stretch the adjectives to more than good, but they're about,
as Dixie mentioned, a half dozen teams that right now
could be there at the end of September. I know
they play a quick October series to be at the
end of the baseball season. But Dixie, let's talk about
(33:48):
the other teams. Because American League East it's boring. We
know Red Sox, we know Yankees, we know a little
about Toronto. But let's talk about the other teams.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
That's fine with me. I'll go right down the line.
In the in the American League Central, we have the Tigers,
who are really really good.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I have a Tigers fans tonight.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
They have Tarrek's Scouobel, and he is the probably the
best pitcher in the American League. Crochet is close, but
he's not. Tarrek's scoobl who shut out Kansas City two
days ago. Kansas City is not going anywhere. They're just
not good enough. Yet They're probably a good bat and
a good pitcher away from doing anything. So the Tigers
(34:35):
should roll easily into through the first place in the West.
Now that's a deal because the Astros are good, and
the Mariners are are pretty good, and they have probably
the most enjoyable player in the American League in Cal Rawley,
the guy with fifty home runs as a catcher. I
(34:58):
would love to see them give the ash run. Even
though the Astros I have rooted for the Astros for
a very long time. They seem to be able to
stay in first place no matter if they lose their
best bat, which they did for a couple of months,
and a couple of pitchers, which they have, they are
still in first place. So God only knows what's going
(35:18):
to happen there, but it will only be between the
Astros and the Mariners. The Mariners have yet to prove
that they can get over the last hump. Ever, ever, yes, ever, Yes,
Now we go to the National League, the Phillies and
the Mets. The Phillies have everything. They have Kyle Schwarber,
(35:43):
who I think is the most enjoyable player in the
entire baseball scene, even more so than Cal Rawley. Kyle
Schwarber is just fun to watch play and hit. And
the Mets they're up and down, another team that you
think should be better. You think they should be better,
(36:03):
they go on runs and suddenly they're not as good
as you think. So who knows. They have six games
to catch up in a month. So I don't know
if Philadelphia is going to allow that.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Hold on. Yeah, do they have any series against each other?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
I'm sure they do. They probably have at least two. Okay,
but you're gonna have to sweep one of them.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
All right.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
The Brewers. The Brewers have no holes. They can hit,
they can run, they can feel, they can pitch, they
can relief pitch, and they've got several good players who
are not having tremendous seasons, but they're having very good season.
If you spread out very good seasons among ten or
(36:53):
twelve guys, you're even better than having one or two
guys go nuts.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
You know, Nancy has handed me herself and she's got
the National League Central and the National League West. The
Brewers are eighty five and fifty four. The Cubs are
six games behind them, yes, say nine and fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
And that's only because of the last two weeks.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
And I'm sure they play each other at least one
more time.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Yeah, they do. But the Brewers have not proven that
they're going to choke.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah. Didn't they win fourteen or fifteen before they lost
one or two?
Speaker 3 (37:30):
Yeah? And you have to also remember the Brewers got
the shaft last year by the Mets. So not only
are they good and hungry, they are hungrier than they were.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Last year, only because they got close.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
And Pete Lonzo's crazy home run put them out right.
And I'm sure they remember that. And so the Cubs.
The Cubs are good, There's no doubt about it. The
Cubs are good, but they may be a short or
a picture short of being able to catch the Brewers
at this point. Okay, two of my favorite players are
(38:09):
on the Cubs, Dansby Swanson it's short and Kyle Tucker
and right field, and I love those guys I root
from all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
But Billy Williams isn't playing right field for the Cubs anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Not anymore? Sure a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Oh, I must have missed that day on the newspaper.
Wait and and Rhinos not on the infield.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
No, and neither is Ernie no saving So let's play
two yes. And as for the National League West, I
only have one thing to say.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Yeah, but Dodgers ahead of them?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, so what.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I'm just throwing it out there.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
The Padres are in the same condition as the Seattle Mariners.
They just can't get over the last hump. They have
a perfect chance a week and a half ago. But
week and a half ago they were a game up
on the Dodgers. They were going to Dodgers Stadium and
they lost three games.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
You can't do that in a playoffs drive.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
No, they had their chance to show him whose boss
and they didn't. And by the way, Raphael Devers at
a home run today and the Giants won again. But
they're five hundred team.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
How's he doing home run wise?
Speaker 3 (39:46):
I No, not yet. He's close. He has not hit
for the power that they thought he was going to
be able to.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Keys mccovey's cove the waters.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Yeah, that's right, and all those people are out there
in their kayaks waiting for balls to come over.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah. Well, and Dixie, thank you, Morgan.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Is my pleasure as always. I am now going to
reach over my computer and tap my good friend Donna,
help her on the shoulder and say, tag you're it,
bring us home, Donna.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Oh, be like wrestling, tag team wrestling. That's right, all right,
and Dixie tell Marylyn I said hello, and thank you
for to her. Thank you for letting Dixie come out
and play. All right, Morgan, Okay, take care bye bye.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Now, I've got about a minute, maybe thirty seconds to
set up what I'm going to be doing with Donna Helper.
If you've listened to BZ as long as I have,
you're quite familiar with these names. Peter Me, Bob Kennedy,
Larry Glick, Jerry Williams, David Bradnoy, Lavelle, diet Bob Rowley,
(41:08):
Paul Sullivan, all men who have passed away, all men
who had a five days shift during the week on
BUZ back in the day. And we're going to talk
about all of them, where they came from, the beginnings,
et cetera. With Donna helper who knows more about media
(41:30):
than anybody I can think of. Time and temperature nine
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